We proposed a fast liquid crystal display (LCD) in a vertical alignment (VA) mode with continuous multi-domains for wide-viewing characteristics. The fast VA LCD was fabricated by the mixed vertical alignment layer with UV curable reactive mesogen (RM) polymer memorizing the switching directions of the LC molecules. The wide-viewing and fast response characteristics were obtained by axially symmetric switching directions and the memorization of them without any specific electrode patterns or surface structures.
We propose a reflective three-dimensional (3D) display using a cholesteric liquid crystal (ChLC) with an inner patterned retarder producing half-wave retardation. The inner patterned retarder, fabricated by selective ultra-violet exposure to the aligned reactive mesogen, divides the circularly polarized light reflected from the ChLC layer into two orthogonal circular polarizations. These reflected orthogonal polarizations construct stereoscopic 3D images without any optical components such as a polarizer and backlight unit.
We report a cholesteric liquid crystal (ChLC) display with multicolor in a single-layered configuration using a multi-pitch stabilization by reactive mesogen (RM). The cholesteric pitches were modulated by temperature and stabilized at room temperature by polymerization of the RMs through ultraviolet (UV) exposure. In a single-layered ChLC display without any additional layer such as a color filter, multicolor was obtained by a multipitch stabilization through spartially selective UV expose at several temperatures.
We propose a polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal (PS-BPLC) device with high transmittance and low driving voltage by designing the electrode structure. The electrodes are comprised with two interdigitated bottom pixel electrodes with opposite polarities and a top common electrode with 0 V, which is placed in the middle of the two bottom electrodes. Since these electrode structures could generate a strong horizontal electric field and induce a high Kerr effect, we could realize a lower driving voltage (30 V) and higher transmittance characteristics (20%) than those of conventional PS-BPLC cells with an in-plane switching electrode structure.
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